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IApplicntion led Jun. 3, 1899. Benund Dem 1, 1900.) (In Iodel.)

UNITED STATESy PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM PRESLY CROSVHITE, OF CLARK, MISSOURI.

WIRE-yFENC'E REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,378, dated July 16, 1901. Application filed .Tune 3, 1899. Renewed December 1, 1900. Serial No. 38,328. (No model.)

T0 all whom t may concern,.-

Be itknown that I, WILLIAM PREsLY Cnos- WHITE, acitizen of the United States, residing at Clark, in the county of Randolph and State of Missouri, have vinvented a new and useful Wire-Fence Reel, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to reels for paying off or Stringing the Wires for Wire fences. In reels for this purpose, which are set up at one end of the fence and the Wires all strung off from the one end of the line, the Work requires two men, one to watch the reel to prevent tangling or kink-ing of the Wire as it is unwound and one to drag the end of the Wire to the other end of the line. Whenthe first length is laid, it is fastened and stretched and serves as a line by which to drive the intervening posts, which is done by the man 2o who has dragged the wire on his return trip 3o improved means for saving all of the return trips of the Wireman and dispensing entirely with the services of the man at the reel.

With this object in View my invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically pointed out in the claims.

In order to enable othersskilled in the art to which my invention most nearly apper- 4o tains to make and/use the same, Lwill now proceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in Which- Figure 1 is a face View of my improved reel ready to be secured to a wagon-Wheel or to a block or board to be carried in a Wagon. Fig. 2 is a rear View of the same. Fig. 3 is a View of the same in side elevation. Fig. 4 is 5o a diametric sectional view of the reel secured to a Wagonwheel. Fig. 5 is a view in side elevation, partly in section, of lthe main body of the reel with a barbed-wire spool secured to it.

Like numerals of reference indicate' the same parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings bysnumer'als, 5

` indicates a fiat ring provided Vwith radiallyprojecting perforated lugs 6 and a peripheral flange projecting from its edge, making the ring L-sliaped in diainetric section.

7 indicates a fiat ring having a peripheral fiange 8 at its outer edge adapted to fit with a moderate degree of snugness into the liange (i of ring 5 and provided With inwardly-pro;- j ecting radially-arranged angular lugs or ears 9, perforated to receive fastening-bolts 10, by means of which the ring is secured to a cruciform frame composed` of crossed Wooden bars 1112. To one end of bar 1.1 and one end of bar 12 an arm 13,0frod-iron, is fixed by passing one end through the `beam and securing it with a uut 14, the opposite end resting in a radial groove 15 in the bar, the position of the arm being adjustable by passing the threaded end through either of a series of perforations 16 in the bar. On the opposite end of each bar 1l and 12 is pivotally secured on each side an ogee-curved arm 17, having at the outer end of cach pair a pivoted link 18, which is adjustably secured to an angular bracket 19 by a bolt 20, passing through one of a series of perforations 2l in the link and a perforation in said angular bracket, which is secured to the bar by the same bolt 10 which secures the corresponding angular lug 9 of the bar.

The arms 413 and 17 are to receive a roll or bale of Wire, the adjustment being provided to enlarge or decrease the'diameter of the reel to take different sizes of rolls or bales of Wire. To adjust the roll of Wire on the arms, arms 17 are loosened by removing securing-bolt 2O and tilted inward, the roll passed over the four arms 13 and 17, the arms 17 tilted out Ward to t the roll, and the bolts 20 replaced.

To secure the reel to an object, as to a Wagon-Wheel, as shown at 23 in Fig. 4, reverse-angled clamp-lugs 24 are placedrupon lugs 6 of ring 5 and secured thereto by eye bolts 25 passing through both sets of lugs. With the reel placed on the outer face of the wheel hook-bolts 26 are engaged in the eye- Iocl bolts 25, passed between the spokes 27 and through a Wooden ring or bars28 on the inner face of the spoke and secured by nuts 29. The reel, as before stated, may be secured to a block, frame, or board to be carried in a wagon, if desired. The end of the wire is secured to a post at the one end of a line ofl fence and the reel moved along the line to the post at the opposite end, there being sufficient friction between the rings 5 and 7 to keep it taut and prevent tangling or kinking. When the end of the line is reached, the Wire is stretched, fastened, and cut olf, forming the tervening posts.

instead of a return trip, as with la stationary reel, saving much labor of-one man and all of. the other required to Watch a stationary reel. To adapt my invention to laying out barbed wire which is sold on spools, as at 30 in Fig.

5, the arms 13 and 17 are removed and the spools secured tothe cross-bars 11 and 12 by f means of hook-bolts 31, passed through the perforations in the bars.

The advantages attending the use of my invention Will be obvious from the foregoing del scription, it being readily seen that it effects a great saving in time and labor and is equally j well adapted for either plain or barbed Wire. While I have illustrated and describedthev best means now known to me for carrying out my invention, I do not Wish to be understood as restricting myself to the exact details of construction shown, as many slight changes therein or variations therefrom might sug- 'gest themselves to the ordinary mechanic, all

ofvwhich would be clearly included within the limit and scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a wire-fence reel, the'combination of a crossed arm provided with series of radially-arranged perforations and radial grooves and'double-ended curved arms having an end of each passed through a perforation of said series and removably secured, the other end of each arm resting in one ofthe radial grooves, substantially as described.

2. In a Wire-fence reel, the combination of crossed arms, an ogee-curved arm pivoted on each side of one of said arms, a link pivoted to the free end of the ogee arms and provided with a series of perforations in its opposite end, an angular lug or bracket secured to the bar, and a boltrfor securing the link and lug together, substantially as described.

3. In a wire-fence rcel, the combination with a flat ring having a peripheral llange at right angles thereto and radial outwardly-pro jecting lugs, a second flat ring having a peripheral flange fitting within the flange ofthe first-named ring,Wire-holding devices carried by the second ring angular clamp-lugs lying on the radial lugs of the Iirst ring and overlapping the two peripheral flanges, eyebolts passing outward through the radial lugs and clamp-lugs, a board or ring adapted to be secured inside a wheel, hook-bolts engaging the eyebolts and passing through the board or ring, and securing-nuts, substantially as described.

WILLIAM IRESLY CROSWllI'IIl.

Witnesses:

Roer. WIRT, JESSE D. HoLLoW'AY. 

